Sad day for me!

[AugeredIn]

Kathy, there is another possibility and that is that it may be dark pied with the white flights. If you bred it to a white bird and some of the chicks were white it would be split white. If you bred it to a white bird and you got pied chicks, you would know it was split pied.

If it has a white throat I would say almost definitely split to white.

 

[pedda munnangi]

White x Indiablue = Indiablue split white. Easy to find and produce . Both parents must have a pied gene to produce a dark pied chick which requires a planned breeding practice.

 

[casportpony]

All of my 2012 peas have white flights and and very small white throat patches that weren't obvious until they were a few months old, so I'm guessing that this year's chicks will be the same.

Three of my adults are from a hen that didn't have any white that I can remember and the other two came from a place that has whites, IB's and IB's with white; they have never produced any pied chicks.

My two boys have no white, but all three of the hens have white flights, one of them also has a throat patch.

-Kathy